A
Primer of Materia Medica
for practitioners of Homopathyby Timothy Field AllenPresented by
Médi-T.

ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA

General action :

Cathartic.
Myalgia, particularly of the intercostal muscles ; perhaps also
inflammation of the pleura.

Head :

Dull headache, forehead and vertex < by motion, > by lying.
Convulsion and vertigo, general debility and dim vision.

Stomach :

Nausea.
Pains, heavy pressure, burning.

Abdomen :

Much rumbling and flatulent colic.

Stool :

Evacuations thin, extremely fetid, preceded by rumbling in the bowels.
Evacuations containing flakes of mucus, as though the intestines had been
scraped.

Respiratory organs :

Dry cough, with constriction in the throat ; cough causes pain in the
forehead and abdomen.
Respiration painful at the base of the left lung.
Pain is extremely sharp and shooting downward, becomes cutting > by
breathing and coughing > by bending forward.
The intercostal spaces tender to pressure, with darting pain, close to the
sternum ; the pain shoots over to the right side.
Sharp cutting pain behind the sternum < by breathing and by moving the
arms.

Extremities :

Rheumatic pains in the joints, especially in the large joints ;
shooting pains in the shoulders and thighs and knees (particularly left
knee).

Skin :

Eruptions, papular, vesicular, pustular, on various parts of the body.